The Letter Writer: Containing a Great Variety of Letters on the Following Subjects: Relationship--business--love, Courtship and Marriage--friendship--and Miscellaneous LettersC. Gaylord, 1831 - 139 páginas |
No interior do livro
Resultados 1-5 de 38
Página 14
... affair mentioned in your letter entirely to your own discre- tion ; and as the enclosed order is unlimited , I hope prudence will direct you how to proceed . Your affectionate father . LETTER 25 . From a young Tradesman , lately entered ...
... affair mentioned in your letter entirely to your own discre- tion ; and as the enclosed order is unlimited , I hope prudence will direct you how to proceed . Your affectionate father . LETTER 25 . From a young Tradesman , lately entered ...
Página 19
... affairs . DEAR JAMES , You cannot imagine what a concern your carelessness and indifferent management of your affairs give me . Remissness is inexcusable in all men , but in none so much as in a man of business , the soul of which is ...
... affairs . DEAR JAMES , You cannot imagine what a concern your carelessness and indifferent management of your affairs give me . Remissness is inexcusable in all men , but in none so much as in a man of business , the soul of which is ...
Página 20
... affairs , that I may avoid the ill con- sequences you so judiciously forewarn me of , and give to my family and friends the pleasure they so well deserve at my hands ; and particularly that satisfaction to so good a father , which is ...
... affairs , that I may avoid the ill con- sequences you so judiciously forewarn me of , and give to my family and friends the pleasure they so well deserve at my hands ; and particularly that satisfaction to so good a father , which is ...
Página 29
... affairs of this lower world , and orders all for the good of its creatures . With respect to your two children , I have proposed the following scheme for their benefit . Let the boy think of some trade , to which his inclinations lead ...
... affairs of this lower world , and orders all for the good of its creatures . With respect to your two children , I have proposed the following scheme for their benefit . Let the boy think of some trade , to which his inclinations lead ...
Página 30
... affair of so great importance . If , however , after all , you should judge the inequality of our age an insufficient plea in my favor , and that want of affection for a husband is but a trifle , where there is a large fortune and a ...
... affair of so great importance . If , however , after all , you should judge the inequality of our age an insufficient plea in my favor , and that want of affection for a husband is but a trifle , where there is a large fortune and a ...
Índice
34 | |
40 | |
46 | |
52 | |
58 | |
64 | |
74 | |
82 | |
119 | |
120 | |
121 | |
122 | |
123 | |
124 | |
125 | |
126 | |
88 | |
94 | |
100 | |
104 | |
105 | |
106 | |
107 | |
108 | |
109 | |
110 | |
111 | |
112 | |
113 | |
114 | |
115 | |
116 | |
117 | |
118 | |
127 | |
128 | |
129 | |
130 | |
131 | |
132 | |
133 | |
134 | |
135 | |
136 | |
137 | |
138 | |
139 | |
140 | |
141 | |
143 | |
144 | |
Outras edições - Ver tudo
The Letter Writer: Containing a Great Variety of Letters on the Following ... Visualização integral - 1827 |
Palavras e frases frequentes
acquainted advice affairs affection affectionate affliction agreeable appear apprentice assure attended bad company Bill of Exchange bless boarding school brother C. D. his heirs character circumstances comply conduct confess consider daughter DEAR SIR desire dollars doubt duty endeavor esteem excuse expect father fault favor fortune friendship give hand happiness hear heart heirs and assigns HONORED SIR hope humble servant husband ib ib indulgence John Witherspoon Jonah Barrington kind least Let me beg LETTER live lover madam manner marriage married master mean mind Minorca mother nature never New-York obliged observe occasion old tenure parents passion perhaps person pleased pleasure present promise prudence Quitclaim Deed reason received respect sent sentiments soon spectful tenderness thing THOMAS RUSSELL thought tion tradesman unhappy vanity Vauxhall Garden virtue whilst wife wish woman worthy write youth
Passagens conhecidas
Página 109 - Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter in soul; Which long for death, but it cometh not; and dig for it more than for hid treasures; Which rejoice exceedingly, and are glad, when they can find the grave?
Página 138 - ... to quit and deliver up the premises to the lessor or his attorney, peaceably and quietly at the end of the term, in as good order and condition, reasonable use and wearing thereof fire and other unavoidable casualties excepted, as the same now are...
Página 115 - As for you, my good friend, I think, since our first acquaintance, there have not been any of those little suspicions or jealousies that often affect the sincerest friendships; I am sure not on my side. I must be so sincere as to own that, though I could not help...
Página 112 - We then relax our vigour, and resolve no longer to be terrified with crimes at a distance, but rely upon our own constancy, and venture to approach what we resolve never to touch.
Página 112 - By degrees we let fall the remembrance of our original intention, and quit the only adequate object of rational desire. We entangle ourselves in business, immerge ourselves in luxury, and rove through the labyrinths of inconstancy, till the darkness of old age begins to invade us, and disease and anxiety obstruct our way.
Página 113 - ... us, and disease and anxiety obstruct our way. We then look back upon our lives with horror, with sorrow, with repentance; and wish, but too often vainly wish, that we had not forsaken the ways of virtue. Happy are they, my son, who shall learn from thy example not to despair, but shall remember that though the day is past, and their strength is wasted, there yet remains one...
Página 112 - ... least, turn our eyes upon the gardens of pleasure. We approach them with scruple and hesitation ; we enter them, but enter timorous...
Página 137 - Massachusetts, yeoman, the receipt whereof I do hereby acknowledge, do hereby give, grant, sell and convey to the said...
Página 113 - ... yet remains one effort to be made ; that reformation is never hopeless, nor sincere endeavours ever unassisted; that the wanderer may at length return after all his errors, and that he who implores strength and courage from above, shall find danger and difficulty give way before him. Go now, my son, to thy repose, commit thyself to the care of Omnipotence, and when the morning calls again to toil, begin anew thy journey and thy life.
Página 116 - You will then find comfort for the past, and support for the future. He that has given you happiness in marriage, to a degree of which, without personal knowledge, I should have thought the description fabulous, can give you another mode of happiness, as a mother ; and at last the happiness of losing all temporal cares in the thoughts of an eternity in Heaven.